Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I The Rise and Fall of the Ringtone Economy -- 1 This Business of Ringtones -- II Ramifications of the Ringtone's Identity Crisis -- 2 Ringtones and the Deskilling of Mobile-Musical Labor -- 3 Left Behind -- 4 The Ringtone and Its Aesthetic Subgenres in Contemporary Classical Music and Media Performance/Installation Art -- III The Ringtone's Dialectical Reversals -- 5 The Annoying Thing -- 6 The Voice of the Politician and the Geographic Dispersion of the Political Ringtone -- 7 A Spectrum of Forms -- IV Revivals and the (Universal) Particularization of the Ringtone -- 8 Personalization and Spectatorship -- 9 What's in a Name? Race and the Ringtone's Revival in (Un-)Popular Music -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.